Weekend Report...Inflection Point in the Precious Metals

Inflection Point:

An inflection point on a chart is an area where the price action can break
either up or down. It’s an area of confusion that makes investors go nuts.
You know a strong move is coming but you aren’t sure what direction the move
will go. I believe this is where the precious metals complex is right now.
One can make a clear bullish or bearish case for the direction of the PM markets
showing just a few chart patterns. In this Weekend Report I want to look at
the PM complex without any bias in mind just using the charts with no fundamental
reasons why the PM complex has to go either up or down.

Having an unbiased opinion in any market is hard. We are bombarded each and
everyday by countless scenario’s that can play out. We may think we’re unbiased
but the truth is it’s virtually impossible to have an unbiased opinion unless
you live on a different planet. Just watching the news or talking to your neighbor
can give you the impression that everything is just fine and dandy or the world
as we know it is coming to an end. We tend to look for articles that match
what we think is going to happen as the herd can’t be wrong. In a strong bull
or bear market the herd can be right during an impulse move when everyone is
on the right side validating your views. Then you get the correction or consolidation
phase that then makes you question your original thesis.

Impulse moves are much easier to trade than a consolidation, topping or bottoming
phase of any stock or stock market move. A stock can trade sideways building
out a consolidation pattern, topping pattern or bottoming pattern roughly 75%
of the time while only trading in the sweet spot or impulse move 25% of the
time. This is one reason why it’s so hard to hold on to profits that were made
during the impulse move.

Lets start by looking at a 60 minute chart for the GDM that we’ve been following
that shows a possible bullish blue triangle consolidation pattern that has
broken out to the upside after completing four reversal points. The red 5 point
triangle was a reversal pattern which was built at the March low that reversed
the downtrend that had been in place since the first of the year. When just
looking at this 60 minute chart it looks like a bullish setup is taking place.
What’s not to like about this chart below. As long as the apex of the blue
triangle can hold support the bulls will have their way. If it fails then the
bears will be taking charge of the inflection point.

Below is another look at the price action since the March low that shows a
possible blue bearish rising wedge developing that is still incomplete. The
rising wedge won’t be complete until the bottom rail is touched completing
the fourth reversal point. Keep in mind we are trying to look into the future
in an unbiased way. All options are open for debate. Some of you may remember
the brown shaded support and resistance zone that has been playing its role
since the November low in the PM complex. One reason why I think it’s possible
that the rising wedge may be in play is because of the two red circles that
show the failure of the price action to reach the top and bottom rails by an
equal amount. This is just speculation at this point as a strong rally above
the brown shaded S&R zone and the top rail of the possible blue rising
wedge can blown this scenario out of the water in a heartbeat. The main thing
is to be aware of the possible bearish rising wedge and follow the price action
which will give us clues to follow. Confirming the 4th reversal point is always
the hardest thing to do because there is no confirmation until the actual breakout
occurs.

Some of you may begin to see a bigger chart pattern forming when you look
at the chart above. If you’re seeing a possible H&S pattern forming your
hunch maybe right. On the daily chart below the possible H&S consolidation
pattern is starting to look the part. The first thing you need to see happen,
to even think about a H&S pattern, is the decline from the head. Normally
the left shoulder high should hold support on the initial decline. If a H&S
pattern is developing then you’ll see support fail at the left shoulder high
and the decline will end up going much lower ending somewhere around the previous
low. From that low you’ll see a counter trend rally that builds out the right
shoulder. On the daily chart below there is a smaller H&S to I’ve labeled
#1. The potential right shoulder high formed after touching the horizontal
line from the much bigger left shoulder high at 560. Sometimes the angle of
the neckline added to the left shoulder high may give you the high for the
right shoulder which I call the neckline symmetry line. Here a horizontal line
maybe showing us the high for the right shoulder at 560 or so. The 50 dma is
also showing up at the possible right shoulder high of the bigger H&S #2.
Again, a strong rally from this point would blow the double H&S pattern
out of the water. The indicators are still showing a bullish setup taking place,
the inflection point.

Next I would like to show you a 19 month daily chart for GDM which shows the
big black triangle consolidation that led to the last impulse move down that
lasted just about ten weeks or so before bottoming at the November low. You
can now see the potential H&S consolidation pattern is made up of three
individual chart patterns. The left shoulder is a falling wedge, the head is
a five point triangle reversal pattern and the right shoulder is our bearish
rising wedge that we discussed on the two hour chart above. The reason I’m
calling this a potential H&S consolidation pattern is because it’s forming
below the triangle consolidation pattern within the downtrend. Also note the
black dashed horizontal support and resistance line that comes in at, you guessed
it 560, that goes all the way back to the bottom made in December of 2013.
The blue rising wedge will give us the clues we need as to the next important
move the GDM will make. If GDM can rally up strongly above the 560 area the
bulls will be in charge. On the other hand if we see the bottom rail broken
to the downside then the bears will be in charge. Either way we’ll know something
fairly soon as the rising wedge is contracting. It’s possible we may see a
fifth and sixth reversal point within the blue rising wedge before it shows
its hand. The bottom line is it has to show us sooner or later of its intentions.
One last point on the chart below. IF, the H&S consolidation pattern plays
out and the GDM breaks down through the neckline the minimum price objective
would be around the 362 area.

Lets look at one last chart for the GDM which is a long term monthly look
that shows almost all of the history for this PM stock index. First you can
see the inverse H&S bottom that formed back in 2000 that launched the 10
year bull market. That bull market formed three beautiful blue triangle consolidation
patterns where the impulse moves lasted roughly 4 to 6 months once the breakout
took place. An interesting side note is that the 2000 inverse H&S bottom
and the massive 2011 H&S top are almost exactly the same height. When the
massive H&S top broke down below the neckline the first place it found
real support was at the bottom of the blue triangle that formed back in 2005.
From that low GDM built out the blue triangle and broke down to the 2008 crash
low at 445 or so. There is another price objective we can use based on the
breakout from the massive H&S top to the first reversal point in the blue
triangle. Using the breakout to breakout method we get a price objective down
to the 320 area which is about 30 points lower than the bottom of the 2003
triangle at 350. If you recall the H&S consolidation pattern on the daily
chart that we looked at earlier had price objective down to the 362 area. If
this bear market is to continue then whenever this next impulse move begins
in earnest , we should expect a move down to the brown shaded area between
320 and 360 where we may see another consolidation pattern start to develop
or a bottom of some kind start building out. If a potential bottom is in the
cards I could see the bottom of the blue triangle being the left shoulder.
The head would be where ever this next decline ends. Then a rally back up above
the bottom of the blue triangle towards the top rail or apex. Then one last
decline back down to the bottom of the blue triangle area which would then
be the bottom for the right shoulder. Again this is only speculation at this
time but most important bottoms take time to build out and most are of the
inverse H&S or double bottom formation. You can see this on the chart below.

Next I would like to show you a combo chart that has the HUI on top, GLD in
the middle and SLV on the bottom. This combo chart shows you how all three
tend to trade together breaking out and bottoming at the same time as shown
by the vertical dashed lines. I would like to focus your attention to the right
side of the chart that shows the price action since the November low of last
year. You can see that all three are potentially building out H&S consolidation
patterns. The necklines are all sloped differently but I’ve put on a horizontal
dashed line taken off of the left shoulder which may show the high for the
right shoulder. I did the same thing on the GDM H&S consolidation pattern
if you recall. You can see the HUI is right at its horizontal left shoulder
line. So far GLD, in the middle has failed to reach its right shoulder high
while SLV touched its horizontal left shoulder high and has begun to decline
and is the weakest of the three. At this point in time the price action since
the November low of last year has been nothing but a H&S consolidation
pattern if indeed it plays out. Again we have something concrete to watch for
clues, for the next directional move the PM complex.

This last chart for the Weekend Report is a long term weekly look at the GDX.
This log scale chart shows the massive symmetrical H&S top. What do I mean
by symmetrical? The two brown shaded squares that measure time and price, are
exactly the same size. As you can see the left and right shoulders are exactly
the same height. Now we can measure the price objective of that massive H&S
top measuring down from the top of the head to the neckline which is 40.9%.
We then take that distance and add it to the breakout of the neckline that
gives us a price objective down to 22.60 which is where we got the initial
bounce, black arrow. As I’ve mentioned many times in the past hindsight is
always 20/20. I originally measured the impulse move down from the breakout
of the big H&S top neckline to the first reversal point in the blue triangle.
That measurement gave me a lower price objective than what we got. Going back
over this chart in hindsight I can now see how our all important November low
was achieved. Sometimes the width of a rectangle or triangle will be all the
impulse move you’ll get. The width of the blue triangle is 28.8%. When I add
that distance to the breakout point of the blue triangle I get a price objective
down to the November low at 16.30, blue arrow. Now lets take it one step further.
IF, the H&S consolidation pattern plays out the price objective for the
GDX should be around the 12.85 area. I measured the potential H&S consolidation
pattern on the GDM chart earlier that gave us a price objective down to the
362 area.

The bottom line is we have something concrete to watch for using the clues
the chart gives us to find what direction the next move may go. If the PM complex
breaks up then we’ll have a different animal on our hands. If the price action
begins to decline, first breaking below the bottom rail of the blue rising
wedge I showed you earlier, then we can follow the price action I’ve laid out
in this Weekend Report until something changes. This is as unbiased a report
as I can put together based on the Chartology that is present .As it is not
possible to see the future, all we can do is look at what has worked in the
past and try to extrapolate it into the future. This inflection point has caused
many good chartists and traders a lot of angst and many have simply given up
. The reward will go to those who manage to be onboard the right train when
it finally leaves the station.

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